To all my friends and family who work or have
worked in a school

Subject: SCHOOL ANSWERING MACHINE


This is hilarious - No wonder some people were offended! This is the
message that the Pacific Palisades High School California staff voted
unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine.

This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came
about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to
be responsible for their children's absences and missing homework.

The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their
children's failing grades changed to passing grades - even though those
children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete
enough school work to pass their classes.


The outgoing message:

Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school.
In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please
listen to all the options before making a selection:


To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1


To make excuses for why your child did not do his work - Press 2


To complain about what we do - Press 3

To swear at staff members - Press 4


To ask why you didn't get information that was already enclosed in your
newsletter and several flyers mailed to you - Press 5


If you want us to raise your child - Press 6


If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone - Press 7


To request another teacher, for the third time this year - Press 8


To complain about bus transportation - Press 9


To complain about FREE school lunches - Press 0 (if you are actually
paying for your child's lunch, Press 8)


If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable
and responsible for his/her own behavior, class work, homework and that
it's not the teachers' fault for your child's lack of effort: Hang up and
have a nice day!

If you want this in Spanish, then move to a country that speaks it!

 

 

that is awesome glad to see someone finally stood up and told them whining california hippies whats up

 

thats awesome finally someone said what we all think

 

Now for a summary of the real story. This school did in fact try to institute policies that would hold parents responsible for their children's absenteeism issues but was very shortly afterwords forced to drop the policy because of complaints. So no, unfortunately lazyness, politics and lack of personal responsibility won out in this case also.

Here's the snopes article for anybody interested. snopes.com: Pacific Palisades High School Answering Machine Message

 

figures the hippies win again I guess if you can find someone else to blame for your faults then complain enough they give up and take it damn.

 

How are the hippies being targeted when rednecks and hillbillies are just as guilty of allowing lax school standards?

 

white trash and hillbillies. rednecks are the hard working, stand-up guys that make things happen and keep things runnin!

 

I'm talking about the pre-Foxworthy rednecks...

 

that is great!